Siria
[ˈsiɾja]
The verdict
“Siria” is a regularly-used Spanish word, ranked #3,812 in Spanish word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #3,812
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 5
- letters
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - País de Asia, ubicado en la región de Oriente Medio, sobre la costa oriental del mar Mediterráneo. Limita con Turquía por el norte, Irak por el este, Israel y Jordania al sur, y el Líbano por el oe...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Siria |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | [ˈsiɾja] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,812 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Siria” sits in Spanish frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for Siria is 5 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ˈsiɾja]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,812 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "País de Asia, ubicado en la región de Oriente Medio, sobre la costa oriental del mar Mediterráneo. Limita con Turquía por el norte, Irak por el este, Israel y Jordania al sur, y el Líbano por el oe...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for Siria, with forms such as "ciria", "isria", and "siira". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "sita", "sura", "sitio", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct Spanish form is Siria, spelled S-I-R-I-A.
Definition
- 1País de Asia, ubicado en la región de Oriente Medio, sobre la costa oriental del mar Mediterráneo. Limita con Turquía por el norte, Irak por el este, Israel y Jordania al sur, y el Líbano por el oeste.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ciria,isria,siira,sirai,sirria,sriia,ssiria
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Siria - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Siria”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct Spanish spelling is S-I-R-I-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as [ˈsiɾja] (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “sita” - see the side-by-side comparison. Siria vs sita
- Browse more Spanish words and confusable pairs in the same reference. Spanish words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.